trying to make a 'latest updates' script

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DieterDP 9 posts 22 karma points

Oct 30, 2009 @ 18:53
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Trying to make a 'latest updates' script
Hi all,

Im trying to make a macro that will display the latest X pages that have received updates. The hard part I'm having is to make this work correctly with umbraco nodes that do not have a pageview themselves (eg: 2 nodes that help decide the content of the parent node - if one of the child nodes is updated, I'd like to have the parent node be labeled as updated).

This is what I got so far:
```
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant-or-self::node[string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1']">
    <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="descending"/>

   <xsl:variable name="parent_with_page" select="ancestor-or-self::node[@template != 0][1]"/>

</xsl:for-each>
```
The problem here is that duplicates will appear if multiple of the child nodes (that dont have their own template) have been recently updated.

Eg: if node Parent has 2 childnodes A and B that have been updated recently, the Parent-node will appear in the list 2 times.
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DieterDP 9 posts 22 karma points

Oct 30, 2009 @ 21:38

After alot of experimenting, I came up with a solution which seems to do its job quite well, I'll post it here for reference.

If anyone has any suggestions/improvements, please let them know.

<ul id="LatestUpdates">


<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant-or-self::node[string(data [@alias='umbracoNaviHide']) != '1' and not(@nodeTypeAlias = 'Inschrijving' or @nodeTypeAlias = 'Photo')]">
 <xsl:sort select="@updateDate" order="descending"/>

<!-- We move up the tree, looking for the first node that is displayable as a page -->
<xsl:variable name="page" select="ancestor-or-self::node[@template != 0][1]"/>

<!-- In this page-node, we find the most recent updateDate and store it -->
<xsl:variable name="page_latest_update">
     <xsl:for-each select="$page/descendant-or-self::node[./ancestor-or-self::node[@template != 0][1]/@id = $page/@id]">
       <xsl:sort order="descending" select="@updateDate"/>
       <xsl:if test="position()=1"><xsl:value-of select="@updateDate"/></xsl:if>
     </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>


<xsl:if test="@updateDate = $page_latest_update">
    <li><xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:FormatDateTime(@updateDate, 'dd/MM/yy')"/> - <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($page/@id)}"><xsl:value-of select="$page/data [@alias = 'PageHeader']"/></a></li>
</xsl:if>

</xsl:for-each>


</ul>

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